Reform Responsa for the Twenty-first Century Volume 1

Brief Description: Responsa on topics related to holiday observance, life cycle events, synagogue life, bio-medical ethics, Jewish ethics, and personal status. Marc Notes: Responsa on topics related to holiday observance, life cycle events, synagogue life, bio-medical ethics, Jewish ethics, and personal status.; Includes bibliographical references and index.;v. 1. 1996-1999 (5756-5759) -- v. 2. 1999-2007 (5759-5767). Publisher Marketing: Reform Responsa for the Twenty-First Century: Sh'eilot Ut'shuvot is the latest in an ongoing series of Reform Responsa. Drawing from the breadth of traditional and modern Jewish texts, law, and ideology, this two volume set addresses over seventy contemporary topics, including conversion of adopted children, fertility treatments, patrilineal descent, issues of synagogue management, social justice activism, interfaith marriage and rituals of death and mourning. Volume 1 covers 1996-1999 (5756-5769). Rabbi Mark Washofsky, Ph. D is the Solomon B. Freehof Professor of Jewish Law and Practice at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati and the Chair of the Responsa Committee of the CCAR. He received his rabbinical ordination in 1980 and Ph. D. in 1987 from HUC-JIR. Rabbi Washofsky specializes in the literature of the Talmud and Jewish law and is the author of Jewish Living: A Guide to Contemporary Reform Practice. The CCAR Press, established in 1889, is the oldest publisher of Jewish liturgy in North America. The CCAR Press is proud to make prayer books and other resources available to rabbis, cantors, scholars, educators and congregations

Contributor Bio:  Washofsky, Mark Washofsky is associate professor of rabbinics, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio.